No Talk of
the Love Without. No Care for Knowledge of the Shag Pile Rug, Rolled-In Hay or
the Bed-Sheet Creases. The Backhand Slap nor the Fingertip Brush across Cheeks.
The Eyes into Eyes nor the Inguinal Gush. Little talk of Taking and even less
of Giving. No Twilit Tangoes nor Hand-Holding. The Almost Total Abdication of
Responsibility to Another. No Hint of a Betrayal nor The merest Whiff of
Resentment.

No Love
Gone Awry, Nor Astray, Nor AWOL.

And Yet,
Everything Felt More Keenly Than Ever. Fruit Plump and Ripe with Nectar Crammed
to Bursting like the Bramble in Autumn.
Pricked By Thorn, The Bleed of Blackberry Juice onto grass, petal and
shirt front. The progress of the Honey from The Tongue-Tip, down the Gullet and
into the Stomach. The Pictures in the Optic Disc. A Hotness in The Chest and a
Burning in the Southern Region. And a Light, the Twinkle of Twitch of a Smile,
from behind a Battered-down hatch. A Sweet Song Sung By The Owl in The Eaves,
That Leaves You in No Doubt As To Where and How You Should Save Yourself.

The
Strength (and Stubbornness) To Know What The Owl Knows.

And Put It
Into Practice.

The Cackle
that Comes After The Smile.

The Love
Within.

-Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Jack
Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s third solo
exhibition with the gallery which will include new oil paintings on canvas and
occupy both of their Chelsea locations, 513 West 20th Street and 524 West 24th
Street.

Yiadom-Boakye
was born in 1977 in London where she lives and works today. She attended
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Falmouth College of Arts and
the Royal Academy Schools.

She has
had several important solo museum shows, most recently at the Pinchuk Art
Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, as the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize. She
has also had solo shows at 32 Edgewood Gallery at the Yale School of Art, 2014;
the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 2013; Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2012 and the
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2011. Yiadom-Boakye will be included in the
upcoming Sharjah Biennial 12: The past,
the present, and the possible, 2015. She has also been included in many
other group exhibitions including MIRRORCITY:
London artists on fiction and reality, Hayward Gallery, London, 2014; The Encyclopedic Palace, The Central
Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2013; The Ungovernables: 2012 New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York,
2012; 11th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary
Art, Lyon, France, 2012; and the 7th
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2008. In 2013 she was shortlisted
for the Turner Prize.

Yiadom-Boakye
is included in many institutional collections including the Tate, London; the
British Council, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Miami Art
Museum, Florida; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; the Seattle
Art Museum, Washington; the Saatchi Collection, London; the Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York; the Arts Council Collection, London; the CCA Andratx Collection,
Mallorca; and the Nasher Museum of Art, North Carolina.

A new
monograph, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye(Prestel) is now available and includes contributions from Naomi Beckwith, Donatien Grau, Jennifer Higgie in addition
to Yiadom-Boakye’s renowned fiction.